We are pleased to announce that distinguished colleagues Jonathan Batten and Euston Quah will join the conference as keynote speakers:

Jonathan Batten is professor of finance in the Department of Banking and Finance at Monash University, Australia. Prior to this position, he worked at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Seoul National University, Korea. He is a well-known academician who has published articles in many of the leading economics and finance journals and currently serves as the Editor of Emerging Markets Review, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, and Finance Research Letters. He is currently the President of EBES. His current research interests include: Financial market development and risk management; spread modelling arbitrage and market integration; and the investigation of the non-linear dynamics of financial prices.

Euston Quah is professor of economics and head of the Department of Economics at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is a prolific writer with publications in well-known international journals such as World Development, Applied Economics, Environment and Planning, Journal of Environmental Management, International Review of Law and Economics, Journal of Economics, Journal of Public Economic Theory, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, among others, and 6 books. Professor Quah is the editor of the Singapore Economic Review and co-editor of International Gambling Studies. He is also the President of Economic Society of Singapore and Adjunct Principal Research Fellow, IPS (National University of Singapore). Professor Euston Quah's areas of expertise are environmental economics, resource allocation and cost-benefit analysis, law and economics and household economics.